This is interesting, but not surprising.
NYT: McCain camp pushed Ayers report.
Quote:
The Times published a front-page story about Ayers and Obama on Saturday, and Palin said Tuesday she was simply “responding to the news of the day” by repeatedly mentioning Ayers on the stump.
Bill Keller, executive editor of the Times, sees the timetable for the Ayers uproar in a very different way, however. He told Politico that the paper was motivated to report out the Ayers link because the McCain campaign has been pushing it — not the other way around.
“We've reported the Ayers relationship before, and we had it on our to-do list for a while to take a more comprehensive look,” Keller said in an e-mail. “When the McCain campaign began to make it a major focal point of ads and stump speeches, we decided the time was right.”
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Maybe Bill Keller would like to point to the when and where of these ads and stump speeches by the McCain campaign. The article says nothing about that, instead talking about the efforts of Stanley Kurtz, someone not affliated with the McCain campaign.
This is a very dishonest distortion by the Times.